Research Letters in Optics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 865092, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/865092
Research Letter

High-Power Hybrid Mode-Locked External Cavity Semiconductor Laser Using Tapered Amplifier with Large Tunability

Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Andreas Velten, Ye Liu, Ladan Arissian, and Jean-Claude Diels

Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA

Received 4 April 2008; Accepted 17 June 2008

Academic Editor: John McInerney

Copyright © 2008 Andreas Schmitt-Sody et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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